ARMSTRONG, Garner Ted

ARMSTRONG, Garner Ted
(1930-)
   son of Herbert W. Armstrong and for many years heir apparent. In the early 1970s a series of allegations about his alleged sexual infidelities forced him to leave the CHURCH in 1974 to establish his own rival organization.

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